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BEHIND the NEws Occupy Higher Ed Movement spreads from Wall Street to the campus green The Occupy mOvemenT ThaT has swepT The nation—and the world—also has a home at many colleges and universities. Long associated with protests, and historically touted as the home of open discourse, american colleges and universities have had a difficult balancing act on their hands: how to promote free speech while maintaining safety on campus. This issue gained attention after members of the University of California, Davis police Department pepper sprayed student protestors on november 18—an incident for which University of California president mark G. yudof has since created a task force to investigate. Larry moneta, vice president for student affairs at Duke, says the campus is the place where protests like the Occupy movement are expected to happen. students at Duke set up tents and banners in front of the campus chapel in October. moneta says Occupy Duke served as a center of the conversation—about economic disparity and other related issues—for the 30 students who regularly slept in the tents and many others as they walked by the centrally-located encampment. “In the great spirit of dialogue and social issues that are often responded to first on campuses, this seemed a very reasonable thing for us to permit.” The protestors packed up their tents the week before finals (it’s unclear if they’ll return next semester), but no safety concerns were reported. That wasn’t the case at Harvard, where university officials in november closed off harvard yard, the location its Occupy protestors had been camped out in, to the public. after observing the behavior of members of the public at a protest with harvard and non-harvard participants on november 9 and reviewing post- U At Duke, students camped out and brought issues to light in a peaceful protest that administrators did not break up. ings on the web urging confrontation and disruption on campus, president Drew Faust decided this was necessary for the safety of the students who live in harvard yard. “The values of free speech and the commitment to the safety of students, faculty, and staff have been fundamental in our considerations,” Faust wrote in a letter to the harvard community in late november. “Our responsibilities for the safety of the harvard community compelled us to take measures to ensure that individuals whose intentions were not peaceful could not encamp in harvard yard or create an environment of violence and intimidation that would dampen everyone’s freedom.” The web’s home base for the broader movement behind these campus protests is www.occupycolleges.org. —Kristen Domonell THE TrEnd Of OpEning branCH CampUsEs OvErsEas is CyCliCal. WHEn THings arE gOOd, insTiTUTiOns lOOk OUTsidE THEir borders. When things get bad, institutions tend to retract those tentacles. However, Education City in Qatar, which opened in 2001 after six years of planning from the Qatar foundation and now has seven higher ed institutions, is going strong. in november, Northwestern University in Qatar broke ground on a new 32,520-square meter building to house its media, communication, and journalism school. northwestern University (ill.) founded its Qatar branch in 2008. The newest resident of Education City is the Community College of Qatar, which was established in 2010 by Houston Community College (Texas). The college opened in september 2010 with 304 students, with enrollment growing to 450 students in the second semester. The goal is to grow enrollment to 1,500 within five years. HCC has sent 75 employees to the Qatar campus, including administrators, faculty, and staff. —Ann McClure Update: Qatar Campuses universitybusiness.com January 2012 | 11  http://www.occupycolleges.org http://www.universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - January 2012

University Business - January 2012
Contents
Editor's Note
College Index
Ad Index
Behind the News
Human Resources
Campus CFo
Getting Carded
Choosing telepresence
boosting the bottom line
Printer Purchase Pointers
Money Matters
Viewpoint
End Note

University Business - January 2012

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